hi everyone Aaron here for ZolloTech and this is the third generation iPad air
and this has been out for almost two weeks at this point and I've been using
it on and off and I think it's a really great iPad and this sort of places
itself in between the mini the regular iPad and the iPad pro in fact it's the
same size as the iPad pro 10.5 that they don't sell anymore
now this comes in at $4.99 that'll get you 64 gigabytes of storage or 6:49 will
get you 256 gigabytes of storage it's not expandable and if you'd like to add
cellular data so you can use this without a cell phone or a hotspot or
Wi-Fi it costs 129 additional dollars so you could top this out at seven hundred
and seventy nine dollars now it comes in three different colors this is silver
you can also get Space Gray and gold the design is pretty classic for the iPad
air at this point although it is a little bit bigger but if we look at the
back you'll see we just have a camera and I'll talk more about that in a
moment we have a microphone on the back and then your traditional Apple and
everything else that looks familiar if we take a look at the front of course we
have touch ID and this looks to be the second-generation touch ID they don't
really say anymore but it's fast enough that I think it is second-generation and
it works just fine it is a physical clicky button though and actually clicks
down it's not like the iPhone 7 or newer with the home button so it is physical
now on the bottom we have two speakers and our lightning cable connector in the
middle and then on the right side we have two volume buttons on the top we
have a power sleep/wake button and we also have a microphone in the middle as
well as a headphone jack on the other side now on the left side we have a
smart connector and these three Pogo pin adapters will allow you to connect
things like a keyboard and there's not many other accessories than that but it
will allow you to use a keyboard with it the same one that works with the iPad
pro now on the front the display looks fantastic it's a laminated display so
that means that right up on the edge there is no air gap so that means
there's no gap between the glass and the LCD display underneath it so it looks
like the icons are sitting right on the display and Apple has
done this in all of their pro products for quite some time and some other
products such as the new iPad Mini and the touch responsiveness is quite good
I've had no issues there and I've never had an issue with that with iPads at all
but this display is 10.5 inches corner-to-corner the resolution is 20 to
24 by 16 68 with 264 pixels per inch it's got the p3 wide color gamut true
tone and it's oleophobic so it shouldn't show too many fingerprints and it's got
an anti-reflective coating on it it does go up to 500 nits so that's its
brightness level and it's quite bright you'll be able to see it in most
situations if you're in a very sunny day outside you may have some trouble
looking at it it just may not be bright enough for that but for the most part
it's going to be fine now this one also supports Apple pencil so not only does
it support the keyboard it supports Apple pencil but it only supports the
first-generation Apple pencil so you'll still have to use the kind of goofy
lightning connector at the top where you want to plug it in and then sync it so
we'll plug it in here we'll wait for it to pair it does take a moment here there
we go we'll pair it to the device and unplug it and it should work I'll put
the cap back on and now it works with an iPad and this is a great pencil it is a
little bit less expensive than the new second-generation pencil but you do have
to charge it with that lightning port and its responsiveness is quite good now
this display is not a 120 Hertz display like the pro version is so you don't get
promotion but for most people it's going to be okay if we go into notes I'll open
a new note and the actual speed and responsiveness is quite good
it will keep up pretty much as fast as you can draw if you had 120 Hertz
display you may notice a difference but there's really no issue unless I show
this in slow motion going back and forth you're not going to see any lag not with
the human eye normally
you
normally so it's pretty good that way I have no issues with the pencil and it's
very nice because it's pressure sensitive so if you want to shade and
things like that if you're into drawing it's great for that it's also great for
a precision when it comes to things like iMovie and iMovie is one of the apps
that works really well on here this is a 4k video that I showed I showed this in
my iPad Mini review but here I've made some edits because in that video it was
very fast to export and I think that's because I didn't change anything so
let's see how quickly it exports now so we'll go ahead and hit done and then
we'll hit the button down here and then we'll save the video and then we'll save
it in 4k and let me just put a timer next to it so we can see how quickly it
saves so here is the stopwatch we'll hit go and we'll see how quick it takes to
export a 4k video that I've modified slightly so that took about 4 minutes
and 39 seconds and that's pretty impressive considering the movie is 3
minutes and 47 seconds so much faster than any Mac I've actually used when
doing the same sorts of things now the iPad air comes with the a12 processor so
it's got the latest processor it just doesn't have the extra graphics power
that the iPad pro does it does use three gigabytes of RAM and that seems to be
fine for iOS it's plenty fast we'll talk about the benchmarks in a moment but
before we do that let's talk about the cameras and then we'll see what kind of
speed the apps have as well so the front-facing camera is basically the
same as all the other higher and iPads it's a 7 megapixel camera with an F 2.2
aperture now this particular camera is not anything phenomenal but it works
great if you want to record yourself you're on a FaceTime call things like
that and it works fine it does not have the true depth sensor that the iPad pro
does like the iPhone 10s 10s max and those things so you're not going to get
the an emoji or I'm emoji but you'll be able to use it for a camera now if I go
back into this and flip it around the rear camera is okay it still only
records in 1080p but it has an 8 megapixel camera and it's an F 2.4 so
it's the same as the iPad Mini but you won't get the nicer camera that you get
on the iPad pro now the actual speakers on the device there's only two on the
bottom they are technically stereo speakers so if you're in portrait they
will sound sort of in stereo but most people watch content in landscape and
you'll only have the speakers on one side depending on which orientation
you're holding the iPad in so you leave there have them on the left or the right
and whatever works for you will work just fine and then also this one is very
fast when it comes to things like multitasking so if we have the app store
open maybe we bring in music pull down here we can resize you'll see it keeps
up just fine there's no issues here maybe the occasional stutter but that
seems to be related to that a 12 processor but it's plenty fast you can
multitask all
and no issue you can go right back into multitasking or back out and things just
seem fast and fluid all of the time now when it comes to things like games well
let me open minecraft because I tend to do that on every video so you can kind
of get an idea but we'll take a look at something else as well so let me open
this up we'll wait for it to load it is the first time I've opened it on this
device and you'll see it opened nice and fast create new great new world create
and we'll get in pretty quickly usually so we'll wait for it it kind of just
zips along when we're using it and it doesn't seem to be taking too long to
load and we're in so if you want to play Minecraft you can no issues here the
frame rates look pretty good I don't see any issues here and you'll be able to
play that all you want now other apps such as arc survival this is a little
bit more intensive and this should handle it no problem you'll see I
haven't opened it on this iPad before so it's more graphic intensive you'll see
it looks ok and I know we swipe up to jump things like that but you'll see
there was a hiccup there so it will run these apps no problem but you're really
not going to see much difference between this and any of the other iPads maybe
the pro will be a little bit better but this was ported from a gaming computer
so it seems to be ok things like the room load fine as well the room is a
game I've played through probably a couple times at this point at least all
of the room games I've gone through and you'll see this one has not been loaded
on this one either but it says welcome back so we'll continue the game and this
is a fairly graphic intensive game and you'll see it loaded pretty quickly and
it's an interesting game so it's a nice puzzle game if you're into that you'll
see that it seems to be just fine and fast and if we want to go back and forth
between this and say minecraft takes a second to resume there we go we're back
in then maybe we go back to arc and it loads pretty quickly so there's not
really any issues as far as speed it's going to do whatever you need it to do
the back of this is not warm at all so let's run the benchmark so just once so
that we can get a basic benchmark score and it should be pretty quick let me
close all the other apps now all the apps are closed let's go ahead and run
this see what we get the benchmark completed and it's scored pretty well at
four thousand seven hundred and seventy two for single core eleven thousand
three hundred and eighty five for multi-core and really what I look for in
these benchmarks is that it stays close to forty eight hundred and eleven
thousand for a multi-core score if it's in that range it's going to perform just
fine like the other iPads as well so this is a great iPad if you'd like to
see a comparison between this and the pro I could do that in a different video
if you'd like let me know in the comments below I think it's a good I pad
to pick up especially when you can get a deal on it which there's usually deals
these days at local electronic stores this one or the mini depending on what
size you want they're pretty much identical when it comes to specs so it's
more about what screen size works for you so if you wanted this or the mini
either one is a great Buy check out the iPad Mini review it's very similar to
this this particular iPad and let me know which one is your favorite in the
comments below personally I prefer the twelve point
nine inch iPad pro I just like that larger screen size and it's what I use
most of the time when I'm not editing these videos so I do use an iPad all the
time and I think this is a great option the pro is great and this is basically
the same thing without the hundred and twenty Hertz display or speakers but let
me know your thoughts in the comments below
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